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Why Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department
The New York Times ^
| March 6, 2025 Updated March 8, 2025
| Michael C. Bender
Posted on 03/09/2025 3:53:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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When Jimmy Carter bought the teachers' union's endorsement in 1979 by creating the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education worldwide. Today, 46 years later, the USA is #40 in education. We are, however, #1 in per pupil cost. Any questions?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s just a money tree....It really has no educational functions. Let’s just call it Department of Educational Unions.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Remember when the Democrats were so fixated on abortion that they tried to pass a law that would have forced every medical student to perform at least one ?
That's a fixation, boys and girls.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:00:13 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Department of Education is a perfect example of how to destroy something with a government agency.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:01:43 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: E. Pluribus Unum
What is the explanation for this? Does anyone know or will anyone really investigate this?
To: ActresponsiblyinVA
What is the explanation for this? Does anyone know or will anyone really investigate this? USAID needs to fund a study to find out. 🤡
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:04:58 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats don't care how corrupt government is, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
”Mr. Trump’s fixation” In the NYT, Democrats have bold ideas, Republicans have unhealthy fixations.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:11:09 PM PDT
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NYT has an unhealthy fixation on President Trump.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
When Jimmy Carter bought the teachers' union's endorsement in 1979 by creating the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education worldwide. Today, 46 years later, the USA is #40 in education. We are, however, #1 in per pupil cost. Any questions? No.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:16:01 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: Sacajaweau
It’s just a money tree....It really has no educational functions. Let’s just call it Department of Educational Unions. Maybe call it a money weed. A tree at least produces fruit or wood. Something useful.
The DOE consumes money but does not produce a useful product. Like a weed.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:19:32 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Because it’s done no good.
It’s a waste of money. Our kids were better educated before the DoE came into existence so they can’t justify their existence.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:23:03 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump is fixated on the cost to benefit ratio. And it’s lousy.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:24:40 PM PDT
by
silent majority rising
(When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To: metmom
Abolish this pleasure palace for education bureaucrats. Abolish government employee unions. What a pathetic scam on parents and innocent children.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:28:56 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
A) it’s ineffective
B) it’s expensive
Bye!
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:29:03 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
To: hal ogen; All
Apparently, it can be done with an EO for federal unions.
State, county, local government unions will take state legislation probably in all cases.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:34:05 PM PDT
by
Reily
(a)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
By the late 1970s, the Democrat Party had been completely & permanently subsumed by the American Communist Party...
The key communist strategies for gaining further control in order to inculcate future communists were:
- the destruction of the CIA (accomplished),
- the establishment of a government-controlled indoctrination school system (accomplished), and,
- expansion of the busing of students away from their birth parent's purview (accomplished)...
Only by burning the government indoctrination system and all those megalith school buildings to the ground and returning control to the neighborhoods will the once-great American education system ever be restored to some semblance of its former self...
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:41:10 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Your comment pretty much says it all, on why it should be totally dismantled.
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:47:35 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Because it’s indoctrinating, not educating. Plus, it’s really a state’s rights issue.
CC
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posted on
03/09/2025 4:55:11 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well, now there you go again.....best reason to dismantle it?
Jimmy Carter thought it was a good idea.
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posted on
03/09/2025 5:02:36 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s. A. Waste. Of. Money.
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posted on
03/09/2025 5:08:41 PM PDT
by
A_perfect_lady
(The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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